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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLAINS Matches Found: 96 A CREOLE TRIPTYCH: 2. THE PLAINSMAN, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Text First Line: In his bronze face a something sombre shows Last Line: Like some light rainbow o'er the cataracts. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Work; Workers; Plains A PRAIRIE MIRACLE, by GRACE WELSH LUTGEN Poem Text First Line: The river's dwindled to a creek under the red sun's glare Last Line: Relives that scene at nain. Subject(s): Drought; Prairies; Rain; Plains A PRAIRIE MOTHER'S LULLABY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset deepens in the west Last Line: Sleep, my little prairie wildflower, lullaby, oh, sleep! Subject(s): Mothers; Prairies; Babies; Sleep; Plains; Infants ALBUMS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me the life of the far west and the prairie Last Line: These albums! Not unbreakable, my toys! ... Subject(s): Prairies; Plains AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies Last Line: From sea to shining sea! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Prairies; United States; Independence Day; Plains; America BEYOND THE RED RIVER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds have flown their summer skies to the south Last Line: Where the prairie is starting to shake in the surf of the winter dark Subject(s): Prairies; Rivers; Plains CAT-TAILS, by KATHERINE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Then thousand regal cat-tails stand Last Line: Once held the drifting, desert sands at bay. Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains CHANGE, by GLENN C. TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: No more the lonesome prairie Last Line: In days when this was the lonesome prairie. Subject(s): Change; Prairies; Plains DAKOTA SPRING, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: The days are dusty coal men Last Line: Waltzing to a prairie lullaby. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains FARMING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer drives his team afield, and Last Line: Things like these, he fails to smile and sing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains GOD'S WEATHER: AUGUST, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: God's peace and the moon on the meadow's dead clover Last Line: With the mists and the moon and the weathergod's weather. Subject(s): Prairies; Summer; Weather; Plains GREAT PLAINS IN WINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Great Plains (united States); Winter HIGH PLAINS RAG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But like remorse Last Line: It can never stop . Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains INLANDER, by ALINE MICHAELIS Poem Text First Line: He had lived inland all his plodding life Last Line: At stark, dry seaweed, folded in a book. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the self of my former shadow Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains LULLABY FOR A PRAIRIE TOWN, by LEE ANDREW WEBER Poem Text First Line: Little prairie town Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Plains MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas METAMORPHOSIS, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Oh god, how I hate these dull barren plains Last Line: And I'd never go east again. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains MOLLY ASTHORE, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary dear! O mary fair! Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland MOLLY ASTHORE, by GEORGE OGLE Poem Text First Line: As down by banna's banks I strayed, one evening in may Last Line: Ah, gramachree, ma colleen oge, me molly asthore! Variant Title(s): Maillign Mo Stoir Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland MOLLY ASTORE, by THOMAS FURLONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary dear! Bright peerless flower Last Line: My mary dear, with thee! Subject(s): Nair, Plains Of (lake), Ireland MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie Last Line: And prairies too! Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains MY PRAIRIE GIRL, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: My prairie girl, though tanned of face Last Line: My prairie girl. Subject(s): Admiration; Girls; Prairies; Plains MY SHRINE, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: I love the friendly loneliness of plains Last Line: And waft to me old dreams that cannot die. Subject(s): Calm; Introspection; Prairies; Self; Shrines; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Plains NATIVE BORN, by MILDRED SPARKS Poem Text First Line: The deep-scarred prairie soil Last Line: Of the prairie-born. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains NEW HARVEST, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM Poem Text First Line: I heard an old man speaking to the wind Last Line: "and his heart will run to meet a prairie wife!" Subject(s): Harvest; Prairies; Plains NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the high plains Last Line: At the end Subject(s): Prairies; Tibet; Travel; Plains; Journeys; Trips OKLAHOMA PRAIRIES, by ELIZABETH COPMANN Poem Text First Line: Not in the path of the brazen sun Last Line: Trails a rainbow through the grasses. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains ON BOOT HILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the prairie and through the pines Last Line: And a star-speckled range to ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Mountains; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains ON THE OREGON TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the prairie pilgrim crew Last Line: Flag that leads the white man 'round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Buffaloes; Cowboys; Oregon; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prairies; Plains ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills Last Line: But when will the earth respond? Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains PLAINS BORN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward from the greener places Last Line: Round the blue rim of the known! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stones in my heart Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe. Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Across the sombre prairie sea Last Line: Of placid, all-consoling sea. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE BLESSIN'S, by NORA FLADEBOE MOHBERG Poem Text First Line: Now, yuh listen here, young feller Last Line: They cain't never even find us, 'way out here. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE CALM, by ELLEN DRINKWATER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think Last Line: And plenty -- for millions of cattle to drink. Subject(s): Kansas; Prairies; Water; Wells; Plains PRAIRIE DAWN, by BERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: The stealthy coyote slinking denward on soft-padded feet Last Line: Heart strengthened, my creator, I have watched dawn's hour with you. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE FOLKS: SETTLERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above them soars a dazzling sky Last Line: Behind the snarling plough. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains PRAIRIE GRAVEYARD, by ANNE MARRIOTT Poem Text First Line: Wind mutters thinly on the sagging wire Last Line: In the centre of the huge lone land and sky. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Prairies; Graveyards; Plains PRAIRIE HOUSES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unreasonable lenses refract the Subject(s): Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE NIGHT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: I love to go on a straight, white road Last Line: At my scarf, as I go by. Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PRAIRIE STARS, by MINNIE HITE MOODY Poem Text First Line: How many ages have these silent stars Last Line: These stars shall gild this prairie's diadem! Subject(s): Prairies; Stars; Plains PRAIRIE TREMBLANTE, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: A stretch of swaying grasses that sweep by Last Line: And lonely bayous answer star to star. Subject(s): Prairies; Sky; Stars; Plains PRAIRIE VESPER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: A doubting skeptic walked with me Last Line: Is creed enough for me. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE VOICES, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Be these the burden of our runes Last Line: When we essay our winged steeds. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE WIND, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: I love to hear the prairie wind Last Line: Blow through the edge of town. Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains PRAIRIE WINDS, by WILLIAM EARL HILL Poem Text First Line: O savage spirits of the air's unrest Last Line: We trust all shall be wellwhere winds are still! Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains PRAIRIE WOMAN, by SHIRLEY DILLON WAITE Poem Text First Line: This is the dawn! I have awaked too soon Last Line: And have not these impounded for your need. Subject(s): Prairies; Women; Plains SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: For here and for the afterlife Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion; Plains - Texas; Theology SKETCHES OF THE TEXAS PRAIRIE: 'APRIL RAINS', by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: There is magic in the april rains Last Line: Of vivid texas flowers. Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Rain; Plains - Texas SOLILOQUY, by FREDERICK E. LAIGHT Poem Text First Line: I have seen tall chimneys without smoke Last Line: Of godly men that somehow it shall rain. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Drought; Prairies; Recessions; Plains SOUTH BY WEST: SOUTHWEST PLAINS, by EDNA TARVER Poem Text First Line: Baked dry Last Line: In placid waiting. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by BEATRICE PAYNE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: There is no land like this land Last Line: To feel its youth return! Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by MURIEL H. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: North's high call brought the winds Last Line: All in may. Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This far out in the country no one is talking Last Line: Honking, sticking their heads out the windows and laughing. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Plains - Texas SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: The red sun sinks in veils of amethyst Last Line: The motif of this music of the plains. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Soil; Work; Workers; Plains THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide Last Line: The song of a million years. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains THE BAD LANDS, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: The bad lands raise their lovely shoulders Last Line: As harmonies unsung. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men. Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains THE CALL OF THE PLAINS, by ETHEL MACDIARMID Poem Text First Line: Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies! Last Line: And I answer in ecstasy! Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Plains; Southwest; Pacific States THE CATTLE COUNTRY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dusk-enfolded prairie Last Line: Holds it in his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cattle; Prairies; Plains THE DREAMS OF WILD HORSES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night and full moon Last Line: Moonlight weathering in the dry corn Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Prairies; Nightmares; Plains THE FREE WIND, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went and worked in a drippin' mine Last Line: And my hawse and me was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains THE HILL ROAD, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: Let others take the valley road, a safe and beaten track Last Line: Under the sun I'll take for aye, the steep hill road, with you. Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Prairies; Separation; Isolation; Plains THE LONG TRAIL: CALLING THE CHILDREN HOME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: So the long trail sleeps. But fast and far Last Line: Mother-mine calling the children home! Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Now it's gold and gold! Last Line: And we strike it rich. Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is comeis come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet. Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin' Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE OLD FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys! Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains THE PEACE OF PRAIRIES, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: To heal my spirit's ill there seemed no cure Last Line: And peace where skies bend low to kiss the plain. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE, by DIANA ULINE GROVE Poem Text First Line: What is it that holds me on this prairie unadorned? Last Line: My soul cried out and found its god. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are blue above my head Last Line: Rapt in a dream of god. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN Poem Text First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone Last Line: Alone forever alone! Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness THE PRAIRIE PATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Upon the brown and frozen sod Last Line: The fields of immortality Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet west wind, the prairie school Last Line: A legacy to those who come from those who come no more. Subject(s): Books; Prairies; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Plains; Students THE PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I am the prairie singer Last Line: I am the prairie singer. Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains THE PRAIRIE TOWN, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: Lovers of beauty laugh at this gray town Last Line: Lies like an old sea-road, star-pointed north. Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Wellesley College; Plains THE PRAIRIE WIND, by JESSIE KENNEDY SNELL Poem Text First Line: The prairie wind is ever constant, yet Last Line: The night-wind with its crooning slumber-song. Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing Last Line: Those of inland america. Subject(s): Prairies; United States; Plains; America THE PRAIRIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the gardens of the desert, these Last Line: And I am in the wilderness alone. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains THE RAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've watched the ground-hog's shadow Last Line: Did you ever see the comin' of the rains? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Rain; Spring; Water; Plains THE SINGER, by DENISE BARRETTE Poem Text First Line: Over the ecru summer grass Last Line: A prairie jenny lind. Subject(s): Lind, Jenny (1820-1887); Prairies; Wind; Plains THE SPRINGTIME PLAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of me, are you hearing Last Line: And the waiting eyes of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Prairies; Plains THINGS I HAVE SEEN, by CLELL GANNON Poem Text First Line: I have seen cherries hanging overripe Last Line: Beneath a sun-soaked sky -- after the rains! Subject(s): Prairies; Plains TO A SILVER BIRCH, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY Poem Text First Line: I never knew until I crossed the prairie Last Line: For now at last I see. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Prairies; Trees; Plains TO MAKE A PRAIRIE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee Last Line: If bees are few. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains TWO NOCTURNS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat Subject(s): Sea; Prairies; Loneliness; Ocean; Plains VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing." Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains WESTERN HOKKU, by MARGARET SLACK FUHRMAN Poem Text First Line: Our happiness is Last Line: And a coyote's cry. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains WHERE PRAIRIES ROLL, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Where prairies roll, the gods dispel Last Line: Where prairies roll. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains WHERE SILENCE REIGNS, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: Out back, where silence reigneth, on the great grey western plains Last Line: While the ever-creaking saddle is the only sound we hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Horses; Prairies; Dead, The; Plains WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas |
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